“There is a change expected to push along the New South Wales coast, that will cool things down there, but only affecting Canberra by about Thursday. So we should start to see temperatures drop off below 30 there so that will bring some relief,” Mr Kerry said.

“On Wednesday we will see some cloud increase but that won’t really affect the temperature much unfortunately. It’s not until the actual wind change comes through on the Thursday that we’ll start to feel a bit cooler.”

Canberrans might also get some relief when rain hits later this week, with showers expected on Thursday and Friday.